Netanyahu Calls ‘Crisis’ Likud Party Meeting Less Than 24-Hours before Election

By Staff, i24NEWS

Till-the-moment Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened what he called a “crisis meeting” with members of his Likud party on Sunday morning, warning them that the fate of the right-wing government could be threatened if the faction does not win the most votes at the ballot box on the April 9 ‘Israeli’ elections.

Netanyahu told political allies that he does not believe that Likud has safely secured the majority vote necessary for it to be mandated with the task of forming the next government, and claimed that the ‘Israeli’ media was attempting to “put Likud voters to sleep.”

“We do not have 61 recommendations — the biggest party is what matters,” he said. “It’s not spin, it’s real. We have to narrow the gap, and I tell you that if it does not happen, Yair Lapid will be prime minister.”

In the occupation entity, the president meets with the heads of all political factions following an election and assigns the lawmaker he feels is best positioned to assemble a viable coalition with the task of forming the government.

Netanyahu indicated that Zionist President Reuven Rivlin would assign the task to the biggest party if no prime ministerial candidate has a sufficient number of recommendations from other party leaders to assemble a coalition, which requires a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset in order to govern.